Application of Silver Nanoparticles in Cancer Treatment
A special issue of Pharmaceutics (ISSN 1999-4923). This special issue belongs to the section "Nanomedicine and Nanotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2026 | Viewed by 1047
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Interests: nano-oncology; nano-drug delivery; protein nanocages; breast cancer; nano-tracers
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Dear Colleagues,
Despite the enormous progress made in recent years in terms of research and therapies, cancer continues to be one of the most insidious challenges of modern medicine. Features such as multidrug resistance, recurrence, migration, invasion, and the ability to evade the host's immune system are among the main causes that make the majority of conventional treatments ineffective. To deal with these problems, innovative therapeutic methods have been developed, such as immunotherapy, gene therapy, and the use of metal nanoparticles. Among metal nanoparticles, silver nanoparticles (SNs) are attracting a lot of interest thanks to their anticancer properties, the ability to enhance the efficacy of treatments such as radiotherapy or phototherapy, and the possibility of being used in combination with other nanoparticles. Furthermore, properties such as plasmon resonance make SNs interesting diagnostic tools.
This Special Issue aims to highlight and collect research articles and reviews focused on the use of silver nanoparticles for the treatment and diagnosis of cancer.
We are pleased to invite researchers to contribute their original work or reviews concerning the synthesis and characterization of innovative anticancer SNs, in vitro and in vivo application of SNs, and clinical trials and studies focused on the application of SNs as diagnostic and theranostic tools.
Dr. Serena Mazzucchelli
Dr. Francesco Ragonese
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- silver nanoparticles
- nanomedicine
- nanotechnology
- cancer therapy
- cancer diagnostics
- cancer theranostics
- tumor targeting
- drug delivery systems
- in vitro studies
- in vivo studies
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